here's some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew. the big picture. the sales season gets underway in the view k. but despite the very british items on pull one a month a slice of the profit goes straight into the hands of foreign owned companies. defying international junctions isro continues to push for widespread seven month expansion is jerusalem and occupied territories in retaliation for the palestinians recently won status upgrade. and as the ones they had to rein in terrorist organization gets backing from washington report from tel rahman why many that believe little has a really trained within the group. international

news life for most this is all she was me thanks for joining us the sale season is underway in the u.k. where millions of people are still indulging themselves with some festive holiday shopping but little do they know that much of the money they thought they were spending on iconic british products actually goes straight into the pockets of foreign owners point of the story for us. proud to be british brits and terrorists alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says on aware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. by the japanese as we know it's been here for ages so i

assumed it was wholly owned by british people so never mind everything's ok now you know there's always enough things i don't think any more about almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers. of the makers if we're selling off all that is good household names like boots the chemist chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stuck. but the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son pat peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames

water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off hartley's just. some butter and also closing down some of their home manufacturing and you know it's interesting what's the reaction analysts say great news for investors although it is bleak news just before christmas for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cad police chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the

world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply are not made in london they're made in paris in the or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of the chemist which is a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years i moved in switzerland where we had revenues. around eighty nine million pounds of corporation tax and they reduce that. burden is then placed on the u.k. touch increases in income tax over the eighty or over forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations government scrutinize every

overseas bid france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy a broad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell. art see london flying in the face of international criticism israel has announced its plans to build more settlement homes in occupied east jerusalem and rings the total number of settlements approved in the last few weeks to five and a half thousand the details now from his point us here. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred

new secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansionist plans

domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli left certainly he is appealing to right when voters and according to all the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into the election that is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time netanyahu has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build them a united to see them he says expresses a wide national agreement and certainly this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some. school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip some critics are asking whether or not all of the

fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question of whether or not in the future is all will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building and that parliamentary elections in israel are fast approaching some experts say there's going to be much more talk about the settlements settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only an evasion of the discourse from the prime minister and the round on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the practices on the ground the five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand with in jerusalem and there's a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why really the delineate the borders of

jerusalem then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living close. would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and a minority of the mentally eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand israelis which will have to go and be accepted and we . compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. washington and seoul liquors have been the trade contract south korea is expected to purchase for high altitude spy grows from the u.s.

worth an estimated one point two billion dollars the deal has to get the green light from congress before it can be signed off south korea has been under america's military for decades with almost thirty thousand u.s. troops currently stationed in the country washington recently approved the expansion of south korea's missile range meaning that some warheads can now reach every corner of its northern neighbor and political analyst says the current deal only fuel to the tension on the korean peninsula. if congress allows these dreams to be sold to south korea but i think will happen is that they will use these drones to manufacture the demilitarized zone should the south korean border we could watch it would traditionally be used to monitor north koreans and use reason you give facilities look we have nuclear reactors we don't mean it can't actually trigger to sort of thing will happen is if three rooms for example three air space is to be changed if you can't see it but if you look at the results it is really

letting president you know. she can't. be too delicious that you really do need easy and that i think what this shows is that they are just to be groomed you actually infinitely it's been forty years you really have any plans to get a change on patient trajectory. and on the way egypt gets a new constitution nearly two years after the toppling of mubarak but not everyone is happy with the on the prospects it holds for the country's future we break down the contrasts in just a few that that story. and also looks back at the u.s. presidential debates between third party candidates and a special end of year feature that's coming up after a very short break mr. deadly

rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators a lot of. self imposed out costs from society i will cut myself am i going to tax my brother understand i want to immediately. going to leave basically attack the cops of my ngo and my frustration. that. stuff well into the church i don't want. to have the most violent gangs in the u.s. . it's just all model kill or be killed with colors matching the national flag.

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this is also a welcome back it was tough times as an international calls could be about to become even tougher the u.s. has. rubin notorious in bringing militant group ek from with terra blacklist and has now given them the title opposition exile washington claims is because the group hasn't committed a terrorist act in over a decade and wants a peaceful regime change in the country maria said norton explains now why summering is are wary of the way. mohammed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings tendons all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard began michel martin short this is how we killed time and the pain from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this. valley iranian

soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the 1980's iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members among prisoners but mohamed refused. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shah and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the us embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after these lawmakers evolution with the assimilation of the country's president prime minister

along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one thousand nine hundred seventy and make a joint america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaida and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq is still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get any case off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs clint extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying and became

a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main supporters of this terrorist groups. to us because the news from that truce to. political ads. new yorker reporter in his article called our men iran reveals how members of trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada. this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool now to those questionable ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network and named u.s. officials confirmed and like he was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my

son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after a pair of it's a man iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as been jock is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort outside iran an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in authority is feel so real to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to move. from iran. to some other news from around the world a plane carrying higher ranking military personnel has crashed in southern kazakhstan killing all twenty seven people on board the military aircraft was on

route from the capital astana and came down twenty kilometers from its destination near the city of shame kent local media reports the pilots to trying to make an emergency landing. launched. at least seventeen people have reportedly been killed in fighting near oil pipeline in yemen the violence broke out when the army barracks by ass strikes attempted to secure the oil rig and repair damage caused by local mentions last month the country's pipelines are often sabotaged by islamist fighters causing fuel shortages and a slash to export earnings. syrian rebels claim to have seized the small town near the turkish border and government forces surrounded after weeks of heavy fighting opposition fighters an hour thought to be in control of large parts of the north of the country after seizing three major military bases and attack is now underway on a fourth. a

divisive election campaign is looming over a trip with a new parliamentary vote now due to take place within the next two months it comes after president morsi signed into effect of the country's first post mubarak constitution passed in a two stage referendum the yes vote was confirmed on tuesday after an official probe went on a gay friends of vote rigging turned up nothing but a reaction of heroes opposition protesters took to the streets of cairo liberals claim the islamic draft constitution betrays the revolution and sidelines the rights of women and minorities in egypt our middle east expert told our see the islamists will lose power if they have failed to meet the people's demands. this is the first. constitution that you have the president cannot. and cannot. you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without for you to depose them so it empowers other subject is other elected civilian centers of power

but you have. democratic elections brought this parties to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not believe it on the. promises about getting to a better security a better economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent to their voters declining and going down maybe because they are not that meant opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while not deliver so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. on our web site for you right now associates return fish tank filled with sharks suddenly shopping center they've got the details at radio one.

song line a report on the latest study from russia's far east that could potentially allow scientists to bring light to the red planet find out more at all to dot com. with only days left until the end of the gas he recalls the most significant global events of the past twelve months and today we look back at the american presidential election on the memorable debates that preceded it. we have been running the election of food series more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show and cetera et cetera so given voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we

are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is to the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system which is called party to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know are the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion that will fly with the four washington establishment

the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you know in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election oh that would be the pie in the sky is that i would impact the election and let me just give you a car knowledge. of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties just parties into that but you're blocking traffic not to have a car first try to write i think you know. i don't think i feel like this is

a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. next to bring you the third part of a special report on the to most violent gangs in u.s. history made in america coming up here on l.c. after a short break. my . last class. the ride that takes your breath

away fleeting across the skies it was a mohnish who do know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds but also it is on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world much of this here we see the great white pelican and several species of the tao mation pelican which are both in the red dates of birth but there are only forty to fifty couples left in the region you know how we can use as well as other species at the monish who do you know feed off h. these birds are waiting for their parents to bring them food the best cash for them is in a small area is a lake where the war is relatively fresh fish cannot survive in the salty a part of the money and the lakes getting salty every year they manage to do lows and all to fish oil reservoir which has failed in the nineteen fifties in the areas hot climate the evaporates quickly and the local source natural saltiness takes over just what the poster boys don't want us there are relatively few water sources

here some water comes from the dawn river some through the cuban during the last three to four years we've had a really severe drought and you see this drought we're practically standing on the bottom of this lake it's been falling every year the majority of birds have been retreating as well they nestle in your limbs. apart from birds the drying out of the lake cool so threaten one of the world's biggest populations of mustangs. one of them on its own and someone next destination. there are more than four hundred is the animals here call in recent decades dozens of can.

this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species as the animals here for instance saia antelopes which are extremely shy was scared away only to be killed in the hundreds of thousand so close here believes the substance found in their homes can cure impotence just some forty years ago there were more than two million saigon antidotes living in asia and they no where else in the world now people brought the species to the brink of extinction this region is be reaching life for thousands of years but now we know relatively short space of time it's why been diversity of creatures is second front by man and nature itself.